Marinated Chicken Spiedies with Garlic Sauce

These Chicken Spiedies with Garlic Sauce are marinated in a lemon, olive oil and herb marinade, grilled and served over Italian rolls, then drizzled with a delicious garlic sauce. Simple, quick and undeniably delicious.

Let me tell you about spiedies. First, it’s a cool name. What’d you have for lunch? Oh well I had marinated chicken spiedies with garlic sauce, doesn’t that just sound drool worthy all on its own?

Spiedies originated in Binghamton, New York and am I ever glad that someone invented them because they’re incredible. Apparently there is even a Spiedie Fest every year, who knew?

What Are Spiedies?

Basically, spiedies are marinated cubes of lamb, chicken or beef, grilled and served on soft Italian bread, drizzled with marinade. I went with chicken here, which I marinated in a simple olive oil, lemon and herb marinade for at least a couple hours.

All you have to do is grill the chicken on skewers and then serve them in these Italian rolls. I also buttered and grilled my rolls, because you simply must. But that wasn’t enough for me, I thought the sandwiches were going to be a bit dry, and then I remembered my garlic sauce that I made with chicken shawarma and thought it would go great with this. I was right, of course.

Ingredients

Marinade

• Olive oil – We want a nice neutral tasting oil to cook our chicken down in.
• Lemon juice – Fresh is best! We’re using the juice from 2 lemons.
• Garlic – Fresh as always, if jarred is all you have on hand, keep in mind that 1 1/2 teaspoons equals 1 fresh clove.
• Seasoning – Salt and pepper.
• Herbs  – Fresh chopped up parsley and cilantro.

Garlic sauce

• Oil – A nice neutral tasting vegetable oil like canola.
• Garlic – We want loads of fresh garlic for this sauce! If jarred is all you have keep in mind that 1 1/2 teaspoons equals 1 fresh clove.
• Lemon juice – Fresh as always, we’re using quite a bit of juice for this sauce.
• Egg – Just egg white, if you’d rather not include raw egg I’ve included a section below detailing how to make a yogurt based sauce instead.
• Seasoning – Just salt for this sauce.

Spiedies

• Rolls – Fluffy white Italian rolls, feel free to pick up some nice stuff to stuff full of chicken.
• Butter – Salted or unsalted but I usually prefer to use unsalted so I can control the sodium content of our dish.
• Chicken – I used chicken breasts today and I find that breasts are perfect for these spiedies. Boneless skinless thighs can be used as well.

How To Make Chicken Spiedies with Garlic Sauce

Garlic Sauce

1. Combine the sauce: Add all the ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth, it should take 1 to 2 minutes. This recipe will make about 1 1/2 cups of sauce, refrigerate leftover sauce.

Spiedies

1. Marinate the chicken: In a small bowl whisk together the marinade ingredients. Place the chicken in a ziploc bag and pour the marinade over the chicken, seal the bag, toss to combine. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours up to overnight.
2. Prepare the chicken: When ready to cook turn on your grill to medium high heat. Clean and oil the grill. Cut the rolls lengthwise and brush the inside of the roll generously with butter. Thread the chicken on 4 skewers, making sure to divide the meat equally among the skewers.
3. Grill the chicken on all sides, about 3 minutes per side, until chicken is cooked and starts to brown. Place the rolls on the grill and let them grill for about 2 minutes or until the bread starts to brown.
4. Assemble the sandwiches: In each roll lay a grilled skewer inside. Gripping the roll at the bottom, carefully slide the skewer off, leaving meat in the bread. Drizzle generously with the garlic sauce.

Egg Free Garlic Sauce

Regarding raw eggs, some fear that they may contain Salmonella which can cause food poisoning. However, the risk of an egg being contaminated is quite low. This used to be a problem over 20 years ago, but since then improvements have been made in the processing of eggs, leading to fewer Salmonella cases.

If you’re looking to make a raw egg free garlic sauce, I’ve got an easy sauce here for you that is just as delicious although less authentic.

• Combine: Lemon juice, plain yogurt (either Greek or regular), garlic, and salt.

You can also just omit the egg white and add your vegetable oil bit by bit to the blender as it blends till it has the consistency of mayonnaise.

How To Serve

There are lots of ways you can play around with your delicious dish, feel free to have some fun with it!

VEGGIES

• Sliced tomato and cucumber
• Feel free to add some crunchy lettuce, I like to add lots of romaine.
• Pickled veggies are delicious with this dish!

SALADS

• Greek salad
• Mediterranean Couscous Salad
• A super easy cabbage salad made from: julienne cabbage, olive oil, lemon juice, mint, tomatoes, and some vinegar.

STARCHES

• Couscous Pilaf With Sautéed Mushrooms
• Any type of rice you’d like.

Can I Make This Dish Ahead?

Yes you can! This dish stores in the fridge or freezer quite well.

CHICKEN

The Chicken Spiedies will last in the fridge in an air tight container for 3 – 4 days. If you’d like to freeze this dish I recommend freezing the chicken in the bag with the marinade while still raw, then when it defrosts it will marinate and you can skewer it and pop it on the grill from there!

GARLIC SAUCE

You can store this homemade garlic sauce for up to 2 weeks in the fridge in an airtight container. I don’t recommend freezing this sauce as it is similar to a homemade mayo which separates and becomes unusable after thawing.

More Must Try Delicious Recipes:

• Chicken Marsala
• Chicken and Mushrooms in Creamy Dill Sauce
• Lemon Chicken Piccata
• Lemon Pepper Chicken
• Chicken Francese
• Coq Au Vin
• Chicken in White Wine Sauce with Mushrooms
• Honey Garlic Chicken
• Spicy Brazilian Coconut Chicken
• Chicken Meatball Noodle Soup

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Marinated Chicken Spiedies with Garlic Sauce

4.78 from 22 votes

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 15 mins

Total: 30 mins

Author: Joanna Cismaru

Serves: 4

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These Chicken Spiedies with Garlic Sauce are marinated in a lemon, olive oil and herb marinade, grilled and served over Italian rolls, then drizzled with a delicious garlic sauce. Simple, quick and undeniably delicious.

Ingredients

• 3 large chicken breasts cut into cubes
• 4 Italian rolls
• 2 tbsp butter melted

Marinade Ingredients

• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1/4 cup fresh cilantro chopped
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley chopped
• salt and pepper to taste

Garlic sauce

• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 6 cloves garlic peeled
• 1 egg white*
• 1 tsp salt

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Instructions

Garlic Sauce

• Add all the ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth, it should take 1 to 2 minutes. This recipe will make about 1 1/2 cups of sauce, refrigerate leftover sauce.

Spiedies

• In a small bowl whisk together the marinade ingredients. Place the chicken in a ziploc bag and pour the marinade over the chicken, seal the bag, toss to combine. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours up to overnight.
• When ready to cook turn on your grill to medium high heat. Clean and oil the grill.
• Cut the rolls lengthwise and brush the inside of the roll generously with butter.
• Thread the chicken on 4 skewers, making sure to divide the meat equally among the skewers.
• Grill the chicken on all sides, about 3 minutes per side, until chicken is cooked and starts to brown. Place the rolls on the grill and let them grill for about 2 minutes or until the bread starts to brown.
• In each roll lay a grilled skewer inside. Gripping the roll at the bottom, carefully slide skewer off, leaving meat in the bread. Drizzle generously with the garlic sauce.

Recipe Notes

1. Prep time does not include time for marinating chicken.
2. *If you don’t want to use raw egg whites in the garlic sauce, you can omit it, just add the oil little by little to the blender until it thickens and should have the consistency of mayonnaise.
3. The Chicken Spiedies will last in the fridge in an air tight container for 3 – 4 days. If you’d like to freeze this dish I recommend freezing the chicken in the bag with the marinade while still raw, then when it defrosts it will marinate and you can skewer it and pop it on the grill from there!
4. You can store this homemade garlic sauce for up to 2 weeks in the fridge in an airtight container. I don’t recommend freezing this sauce as it is similar to a homemade mayo which separates and becomes unusable after thawing.
5. Please keep in mind that nutritional information is a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 1spiedieCalories: 446kcal (22%)Carbohydrates: 23g (8%)Protein: 23g (46%)Fat: 30g (46%)Saturated Fat: 11g (69%)Cholesterol: 70mg (23%)Sodium: 892mg (39%)Potassium: 469mg (13%)Fiber: 2g (8%)Sugar: 4g (4%)Vitamin A: 586IU (12%)Vitamin C: 21mg (25%)Calcium: 58mg (6%)Iron: 2mg (11%)

Course:Lunch

Cuisine:American

Keyword:chicken spiedies

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